| Description |
viii, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Finality Criterion -- Ch. 3. The Self-Sufficiency of Happiness -- Ch. 4. Acting for the Sake of an Object of Love -- Ch. 5. Theoretical and Practical Reason -- Ch. 6. Moral Virtue and To Kalon -- Ch. 7. Courage, Temperance, and Greatness of Soul -- Ch. 8. Two Happy Lives and Their Most Final Ends -- App. Acting for Love in the Symposium |
| Summary |
"Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. Many scholars oppose this reading because the bulk of the Ethics is devoted to various moral virtues - courage and generosity, for example - that are not in any obvious way either manifestations of philosophical contemplation or subordinated to it. They argue that Aristotle was inconsistent, and that we should not try to read the entire Ethics as an attempt to flesh out the notion that the best life aims at the "monistic good" of contemplation."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-227) and indexes |
| Subject |
Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics.
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Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics
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Ethics, Ancient.
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| LC no. |
2003042899 |
| ISBN |
0691114668 : |
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9780691114668 alkaline paper |
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9780691126265 paperback |
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0691126267 paperback |
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